These are the John Prideaux Selby Ducks! Magnificent Antique Prints: Selby Ducks! English Hand Colored Engravings published in London from 1817 to 1834. Life sized hand colored copper plate engravings on handmade J. Whatman paper. “The Audubon” of Great Britain entitled Illustrations of British Ornithology.

Selby Ducks! Stunning Life Sized! Illustrations of British Ornithology. “The finest British work ever published on Birds.”

These Selby ducks prints were published in Edinburg, Scotland from 1821-1834. These are stunning life sized hand colored copper plate engravings on heavy wove J Whatman paper. The same papermaker, J Whatman manufactured the paper for the first edition elephant folio Birds of America by John James Audubon in 1835. The John Prideaux Selby Birds are known as the “Audubon” of Scotland. The condition is excellent and the water coloring is exemplary. Each old print measures 21 x 26″ Click here to contact us!